The Holy Family with Saints in a Landscape

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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Within a sprawling rural landscape, the Virgin Mary is seated with the Christ Child in front of a classical building. She holds her sleeping son tenderly while three figures – an unidentified female saint and Saint George with the princess he rescued – gaze at him in awe. The infant Saint John the Baptist and two angels stand with a lamb, which symbolises Christ’s eventual sacrifice. Saint Joseph appears to the right of the scene in the middle distance, slumped against a tree, seemingly asleep.

This painting was produced after 1635 by a member of Rubens’s studio in Antwerp and is based on The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Prado, Madrid), which Rubens made between 1632 and 1635. Some of the details in the National Gallery picture differ from the earlier painting but the composition, including the positioning of the figures, remains relatively unchanged.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

The Holy Family with Saints in a Landscape

Date

after 1635

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 119 x W 158.5 cm

Accession number

NG67

Acquisition method

Bought, 1824

Work type

Painting

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